In the sensationalist New York Post (www.nypost.com) this past Monday, an article titled “Your late winter escape to Florida’s poshest beach” highlights—briefly, in one breathless sentence—the dining scene.

“Great old-school island haunts (Ta-boo, Chez Jean-Pierre, 93-year-old Testa’s and 76-year-old Green’s pharmacy, where you can still open a `house account’) coexist alongside a handful of relative newcomers that are consistently packed (Chef Clay Coney’s Imoto and Buccan; a new outpost of the Nashville-based BrickTops chain; and Surfside Diner—the breakfast and lunch joint that replaced Hamburger Heaven this fall) and the fine French menu at chef Daniel Boulud’s 11-year-old, white-tablecloth Café Boulud.”

Dining spots at The Breakers are highlighted, too, including “wildly popular” HMF.

Woodward also mentions—with another parenthetical tidbit—a few restaurants in West Palm Beach: “…A few delicious gems on the West Palm Beach mainland (Kitchen, by Tiger Woods’ former personal chef, and Hullabaloo, an Italian gastro-pub) regularly lure a horde of Ferrari and Rolls Royce-driving locals over the bridge….”

Her recommendations of where to drink include Café Boulud, Ta-boo, Cucina dell’Arte and Michael R. McCarty’s, “a society hotspot where fresh-faced trust funders in boat shoes and blazers mingle with sun-kissed heiresses and those who want to be.”

About the Author

M.M. Cloutier is a longtime freelance journalist who has written and reported about dining and food, business, history, travel, people and more for numerous local, regional and national publications, such as Palm Beach-area newspapers and magazines, as well as The New York Times, Time magazine and others.